Mattel has a program for Hot Wheels collectors called the Hot Wheels Red Line Club. The way it works is people pay $9.99 a year for the “opportunity” to periodically buy special Red Line Club exclusive diecast vehicles. Some of these vehicles are limited in number and others are not. […]
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There’s a YouTuber who goes by the name of Ignition Diecast. He published a short video on March 5, 2024 that I thought was interesting. Not because I found it insightful or reasoned, but because I found it ridiculous and absurd. For example, he said people who buy Hot Wheels
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There’s a person on the Internet who goes by the name of Rattle Pokémon. He’s carved out a niche for himself as the Pokémon fraud investigator. Rattle Pokémon is a cross between Rorschach and Barney Fife, only with a French-Canadian accent. Almost every video he posts on YouTube deals with
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Yesterday my wife and I visited the Valley Mall, the Hagerstown area’s premiere shopping center. While there I noticed FYE, a leading specialty retailer of entertainment and pop culture merchandise in the United States, was having a huge sale on all their clearance items. We swung through the store looking
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You should not take tax advice from YouTube content creator RockstarFlipper. Casey Parris, also known as RockstarFlipper, published a YouTube video on January 1, 2024 entitled How much Taxes do Ebay sellers have to pay in 2024? The aim of the video was to explain to his fellow eBay resellers
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What exactly is retail fraud? Outright shoplifting is a clear example of retail fraud, but sometimes it’s not so clear cut. After a long break, I recently got back into collecting Star Wars action figures. Because of this, I joined a few Facebook groups dedicated to the hobby. In one
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If you think the inclusion of shamans and druids in Magic: The Gathering is culturally insensitive, I have some good news for you. Maybe. From Wargamer: Magic: The Gathering is considering dropping the shaman and druid creature types, because of the terms’ significance as real-world religious identifiers, MTG head designer
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A Massachusetts woman held a yard sale last month. Included in the items sold were three factory-sealed Pokémon Team Rocket booster boxes belonging to her father. Unbeknownst to her, the Pokémon boxes were worth a lot of money. TCGPlayer currently lists similar factory-sealed Pokémon Team Rocket booster boxes for around
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